Wind & Solar are NOT cheaper than Coal & Oil
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Also not fossil fuel. What the Rockefellers started paying people to call fossil fuel was not from fistula. It's been proven that algae make it, it was known that it replenishes itself, and is found at the wrong depths to be from 'fossils'.
Just so everybody knows : Many ( in relative terms ) many electrical producing power stations produce POWER / ELECTRICITY with large powerful earthen magnets and armatures. ( primarily in Cities / Suburbs ) The next time you drive your car down the street , and you pass a power producing structure , ( where all the big high power lines branch out from. ) look for all that thick black coal burnt smoke emitting from this power station. ( there is none ! ) We are being scammed. Armatures spun by large earthen magnets is 100% FREE ! Wind & Solar are a giant scams as well. ( ? did you invest in some ? ) They only produce power when it is windy / sunny - and a febel amount at that ! Take a "Wild Guess" who has acquired the title / deed to the land that exist under all these "Wind & Solar" farms ??? with grants ( hand outs / money laundering - your TAX dollars ??? ) Sing along now kid's ! - 1-800 - CARS FOR KIDS - Think "Six Million Acre's" !!! Alllllllllll with your TAX Dollars.
Anyone with 2 neurons to rub together knows wind and solar are more expensive than fossil fuels. Why else do you think the government has to hand out subsidies to get people to use them? If they were actually cheaper, the market would make sure it happened without any government assistance.
Sometimes I wonder about the intelligence of people. People should have burst out laughing when he made that statement. It was so preposterous it must have been a joke.
Australia is good example. The Government is coluding with energy companies to roll out wind and solar power generation.
At present the Australian power grid is almost at the point of failure.
These idiots won't even consider hydraulic electric or nuclear power.
Australia has vast reserves of thermal coal for power generation and vast reserves of natural gas.
They are scaling back our use to meet the climate targets.
At the same time we export the coal and gas to China ,Japan,South Korea and others.
Welcome to Southern Quang Xi province!
Honestly, wind is basically worthless no matter how you spin it. It's inefficient, takes up more land than needed, and kills eagles. The only "good" point it has, is that if done properly, it can be rather scenic (see the Dutch countryside), but I don't actually think those are power generating. I think those are the more classic type of windmill that are used for grain processing. Some may have been converted to power generation, but I digress. Wind is worthless for anything other than specific aesthetic purposes with a few practical applications.
Solar isn't up to par with coal or oil either, but at least it DOES have it's uses. Using Solar as the main source of power for a nation is retarded, but cutting it out is stupid as well since Solar, if done properly, is beneficial. Look at agrovoltaics.
Most agrovoltaics setups use a minimal amount of land, and make use of modern tech that use a different type of solar capture tech than the typical panels. I don't entirely understand the science myself given it's not my field of expertise, but from what I've seen looking into it, they basically use either a plastic or liquid medium on top of glass or between two slabs of glass that only absorbs the portion of sunlight that can be converted into energy for human consumption.
The rest of the light, including the parts that plants use for photosynthesis, passes through to the ground. In other words, you generate a decent amount of power, while letting your crops grow in a moderately shaded area. All without any use of the toxic metals and materials usually found in typical panels (since they use a different technology and medium),
I've even seen setups on large farms and ranches where the owner sets up "shade buildings" using these type of "solar panels" for cows, pigs, etc. Since the part of the light absorbed is the part that generates heat. Thus generating power while giving the animals a cool play to lay down.
So Solar, if using the proper technology, CAN be a net benefit, since not only does it provide farmers with a reduced power bill, but if they generate enough energy it could also be another source of income. It's not enough to replace oil and coal. But anything that makes farms more productive, and crops less expensive is a net benefit to society as a whole.
But like I said, this isn't achieved using panels. This is done using a modernized, updated version of solar technology that is a little more expensive than normal solar. So most of these "solar companies" will only make use of it in smaller scale projects since they want to squeeze every penny out of the scam of government subsidies by buying the absolute cheapest chinese solar panels that break as the drop of a hat.
Long story short, wind is worthless 99% of the time, but solar does have niche applications if using modernized methods and technology instead of the same crap we've had since the 80's (just made cheaper).